Okay, so today I wanted to mess around with displaying Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) info on my Mac. I’d heard about the `mps show` command, but I’d never actually tried it out myself. So, I thought, “Why not give it a shot and see what happens?”
First things first, I needed to open up my Terminal. I use iTerm2, because, well, it’s just better. Once I had that open, I was ready to start typing.
I simply typed in `mps show` and hit Enter. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, honestly. I thought maybe it would just spit out a wall of text that I wouldn’t understand.
The Output
To my surprise, it was actually pretty readable! It wasn’t overwhelming at all.
- It started by showing my device name. Nothing fancy, just the regular name I see in my system settings.
- Then it showed me the number of compute units. This was cool because I had a general idea about, but I’d never seen the exact number.
- It even showed some memory information.Like total and free memory. This is the kind of stuff that can be helpful when you are playing some games.
- There was a section about “max recommended working set size”.
- And lastly it listed the “preferred device memory model”.
Honestly, the whole process was way easier than I thought it would be. It’s just one simple command, and boom, you get a nice little overview of your MPS capabilities. I definitely learned a little something new, and it didn’t even take me five minutes. I’ll probably use this again sometime just to quickly check up on things.